India is merely a geographical expression. It is no more a single country than the Equator
Europe has just too many countries who have hated each other for too long to pull it apart and very little to hold it together.
We in Europe are confronting an unsettling feeling we never wanted to know again: how easy it is for countries to fall away from one another
Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
There has been a failure of leadership all over post colonial Africa to unite the country’s people.
When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country? .. You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.
Gentlemen, radical abolitionism must be put down. This great and glorious country will be shattered into fragments if it is not, or else we shall find ourselves at last brought under the iron rule of military despotism.
Throughout history, countries have sought to expand ….Today, the goal of most wars is too make countries smaller rather than larger.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
Pakistan is not a unified country.
